of needed money. The greatest problem is to save our country from
erosion, dust storms and floods. This can be done but it will require a
real free press which will give our people information as to blunders
of the past and the necessity of scientific management. If these things
are not done the next generation is apt to have one third of the
country a desert. You have certainly awakened people to the cause of
troubles.
 
 
But a free press and genuine education are necessary. I think your
re-election on a large margin might enable you to start press reform,
perhaps enable you to help start real newspapers at strategic points.
Many able young journalists are ready to set up papers of their own if
they could have a fair chance. With this I think we ought to have a
Department of Education in Washington whose chief would reform
gradually state institutions, and see to it that real teachers of the
truth about our past be employed in high schools and feel themselves
actually free. You
know how many states, even the District of Columbia,